MARC FITZPATRICK admits the true test of Ross County’s mettle will come in how they react to losing one of the most remarkable records in Scottish football.

St Johnstone’s backs to the wall victory brought to a close the run of 40 league games unbeaten stretching back to August 13 last year.

Fitzpatrick is aware they will be judged on how they respond – but believes the character is there in abundance to react the right way.

The former Motherwell midfielder – now operating at left-back for County – said: “It’s all about how we react to the next game now.

“We’ve shown by going 40 games unbeaten that we have a good mentality about us and that we can deal with the pressure. We can take that into the next game. We had our chances in today but couldn’t take them.

“Maybe our luck had just run out. We had wave after wave of attacks against them. We should have scored one or two more goals, we had the chances. It just didn’t really break for us.

“These things happen in football and we’ll just need to pick ourselves up for next week now.”